Ivan’s personality is starting to explain Larissa’s a bit. I hope we see more of him (for some reason he looks familiar). At least he seems to know how to handle her! I’m still having trouble thinking of her drawing pretty things but I guess she has a soft side… either that, or her definition of “pretty” isn’t what people would expect it to be.

The imagination is tied to how we been raised and were we sit on society. A basic explanation for larisa is somwhat of a rebellious atittude to her father´s style and a way to express some feelings that can get out other way (If we consider Larisa´s life have more fire than flowers).

Besides in her Caothic Neutral ideology the unexpected is to be expected, of course I dont think she “thinks” that way (as rational thinking is not part of her). Also experimentation in art is product of reflexion, a simple pretty picture has a lot less “philosophycal reflexion”, in it simplicity is extrictly caothic (example: Punk).

Is always to be remembered that the character of Larissa is tied to her use of insuline, her family (and her conection with Russian Heritage), her “comodity” (they dont suffer too much to pays the bills and Larissa has enough money to buy her set for painting), her rebelious attitude and her relationship with her friends.

She doesnt care for other people views, as long as she herself feels fine and see no harm. The “slut” arc for example. Her paintings dont have to be coherent with her, but just give her pleassure. Her painting would also be liberated of the modern and ilustrated concept of art (s XVIII), so she gives not a crap about if her paintings can be considered as ART or as simple paintings.

Is complex but pretty simple: she just paints what she feels like to paint/ paints what she wants.

To just paint flames and destruction will not fit in her ideology, is what the others expect of her.

I like the eye-roll as Larisa is waving her arms around. I think he’s heard similar arguments before. Children can often be quite repetitive and (especially in Larisa’s case) unable to see the validity of other points of view. Also bet the flowers and sunsets she paints are a riot of clashing colors with red a major factor,

Demons that pay bills, a normally destructive and morally questionable female individual who suddenly takes interest in finer arts, a young man named after one of the most kickass video game characters of all time, and to top it off another girl who has a intelligent talking raccoon as a best friend, and before mentioned people as friend/boyfriend who go on adventures that include acts that make people question their sanity as well as breaking down stereotypes in every day life. And making it all entertaining reading to boot.
I am very satisfied, yes indeed.

@ Gamesman:
Larisa wearing a MLP t-shirt…Most likely RD’s cutie mark on a black background. Heh, it might even happen, if Novil’s convinced Powree yet. I could actually see Larisa enjoying the show, even so. Chaos seems to like it, in general. The real question is who her favorite character would be. Not Twilight, too rational, not Rarity, just…no, Not Applejack, too caring of family, not Fluttershy, Well, maybe for sheer unexpectedness. Pinkie is Chaotic Good alignment, unlike Larisa’s solid Chaotic Neutral, which is the only reason I think Rainbow Dash would win. Competitive hilarity to the max.

And sorry to the non-bronies out there who wanted to read all the comments for some reason.

It makes me think of the Mary Tyler Moore show…
MARY: Uh, do you always call your mother Phyllis?
BESS: It’s her name!
(its been a while since i watched it. It had something to do with these parenting books her parents were insisting on raising her by… maybe Larissa’s parents are the same way? Or maybe she’s just going through a phase. Some kids do it to seem more adult.)

Sunsets? Flowers? Pretty stuff? Who is this person and what did you do with Larisa? Next she’ll be wearing a MLP t-shirt! Say it isn’t so!

Well, even at the time you wrote this, I could see her possibly being a fan of the rule of Nightmare Moon and/or wearing a “Cupcakes” shirt… and even canonical Pinkie Pie could be a character that would be up her alley.

… of course not that Discord has debuted… yeah, no question, she would totally wear a Discord t-shirt if someone gave it to her.